"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
I saw your movie tonight
I thought you were pretty good
I'm so happy that you're doing what you want to
You go to your favorite dark place
Think about the auto-da-fe
Unicorns eating baby meat
There's a dragon rape if you want one
(One's the loneliest number)
Smoke hood Melion
Female erection
(She was the archetype)
You fetishize the archetype
Don't treat me like a tourist
Let's stay high on a negative wave
And paint it black just like the good times
Don't treat me like a tourist
Let's stay high
They break our hearts like its our birthdays
Soak us in animal blood
I want somebody to frisk me
I want this night to distort me
But I didn't come here just to see you dancing
No, I do admire your heart
Or try to cure your androphobic heart
Anyways I've crippled inside
Don't treat me like a tourist
Let's stay high on a negative wave
And paint it black just like the good times
Don't treat me like a tourist
Let's stay warm, lights a new
And paint is put in our hand again
When we were passengers
Don't treat me like a tourist
Lets stay high
They break our hearts like its our birthdays
Soak us in animal blood
I thought you were pretty good
I'm so happy that you're doing what you want to
You go to your favorite dark place
Think about the auto-da-fe
Unicorns eating baby meat
There's a dragon rape if you want one
(One's the loneliest number)
Smoke hood Melion
Female erection
(She was the archetype)
You fetishize the archetype
Don't treat me like a tourist
Let's stay high on a negative wave
And paint it black just like the good times
Don't treat me like a tourist
Let's stay high
They break our hearts like its our birthdays
Soak us in animal blood
I want somebody to frisk me
I want this night to distort me
But I didn't come here just to see you dancing
No, I do admire your heart
Or try to cure your androphobic heart
Anyways I've crippled inside
Don't treat me like a tourist
Let's stay high on a negative wave
And paint it black just like the good times
Don't treat me like a tourist
Let's stay warm, lights a new
And paint is put in our hand again
When we were passengers
Don't treat me like a tourist
Lets stay high
They break our hearts like its our birthdays
Soak us in animal blood
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You go to your favourite dark place Think of the auto de fae, unicorns eating baby meat There's a dragon rape if you want one (One's the loneliest number)
Smoke hood, Melion Female erection (You fetishize the archetype) You fetishize the archetype
I want somebody to frisk me. I want this night to distort me
But I didn't come here just to see you dancing
No! Or to admire your art. Or try and Cure your androphobic heart Anyways I'm crippled inside
Don't treat me like a tourist let's stay Woke, like Pharoah E. Badu And paint it feral in our heads again Like when we were passengers
hi! thanks for sharing your perceptions of the song. here's some possible corrections: But I didn't come here just to see you dancing no! or to admire your art or try and kill the androphobic heart
much love for the new album! fuck yeah i'm going to see them live in brazil in november, waited 10 years for that. :)
greatest song. I LOVE IT.